New Media Practicals: December 2005

some days all we do is watch the sky.

This is a picture of me and my cousin, Anna, who is such an awesome person. This is taken with her digital SLR camera through a fish-eye lens (sp?). This was taken when we were in Adelaide, Australia where she currently lives. The phrase "some days all we do is watch the sky" is taken from a song's lyrics but Anna & I can both relate to what it means. It's kinda our song hence the phrase written there.

beach.

This is a picture of a beach in Brunei. It's not so clear because i took a still shot of it from a video camera, i couldn't find anything better. I included the beach because i like going there when the sun's about to set and just think. Sometimes i go with my family or friends. Either way, it's a place i'd go to with people i love/like. I photoshopped the picture and gave it a little sun. Not sure if it's good because i think you can tell that some features are blurry.

how i wish you were real.

My friend made this for me two years ago as a desktop wallpaper.

I saved these pics from a closed down The Used site. (official band site: http://www.theused.net)

I wanted to put Quinn in a collage type of postcard because i have his pictures EVERYWHERE stuck in my room and the phrase i wrote there was to show how obsessed i amwas with him. :D

final copy. :)

blood is forever.

Here's a picture of my family and i on the first day of the festive season of Syawal (a celebration month for Muslims after a month of fasting). I played around with Photoshop's filters to create our stone-y looking bodies and blurred ferns. The phrase i've written there is what my father used to tell us. Friends come and go, blood stays forever. cinajuackpplgsebenarnya.

best friends...pull the trigger together.

The end product of the best friends picture. I was thinking of doing an 'i miss you' theme in the image but most pictures i found of my friends have them all smiling which doesn't really go with the 'missing' effect.

best friends pull the trigger together.

Those are photos of my friends that i want to mix together in one page. In the middle of it would be a sentence that i found from a song's lyrics but modified a little bit.

New theme idea.

I decided that my theme of the project would be things that were important to me on the last year I was in Brunei before going to the UK to study. The theme before this was 'water' but i think the 'water' theme doesn't really connect with me because it's not personal. The 5 postcard pictures would of my best friends, my family (parents & sister), my unhealthy obsession on the guitarist of the Used; Quinn Allman (the obsession was at its peak during the last year i was in Brunei), my close cousins and the beach where i usually spend time with either my family or friends (i live near the beach).